L.A. Burden, Corn and Seeds the Beams Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. Restaurant, shop, dwelling.
L.A. Burden, Corn and Seeds the Beams Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- sombre-hall-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1968
- Type
- Restaurant, shop, dwelling
- Address
- L.A. Burden, Corn and Seeds the Beams Restaurant, High Street, Headcorn
- OS grid reference
- TQ 834 442
- Coordinates
- 51.1679, 0.62256
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beams Restaurant and No. 39 is a shop, restaurant, and dwelling located on Headcorn High Street, dating from the 18th century and later. The ground floor is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, while the first floor of No. 39 is weatherboarded. The first floor of the restaurant features exposed studding with rendered infilling and straight braces. The building has a plain tile roof and is two storeys high. The ridge of No. 39 is lower than that of the restaurant, with the right end of the restaurant having a hipped roof. There is a gable end stack to the left of No. 39 and a ridge stack at the junction of No. 39 and the restaurant.
The fenestration is irregular, comprising four windows: one three-light casement window for No. 39 and another at the left end of the restaurant, along with two 16-pane sash windows towards the right end of the restaurant. No. 39 features a bow window with rectangular panes and a plain fascia on the ground floor, while the restaurant has two canted bays and one six-light sash window. A panelled door is located to the right of the bow window for No. 39, and the restaurant has two ribbed doors, one to the right of centre and another at the right end. There is a blocked door or doors to the left of centre of the restaurant. The rear of the building has additions, but the interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
L.A. Burden, Corn and Seeds the Beams Restaurant sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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